The Replacement Killers

(Columbia TriStar)

The leading man of such John Woo favorites as Hard Boiled and The Killer, Hong Kong's Chow Yun-Fat makes his American debut. Sent by a Chinese-American crime lord to kill a Los Angeles cop's little boy, Chow hopes to hightail it back to Shanghai to protect his own family from the boss's wrath. First-time feature director Antoine Fuqua xeroxes Woo's balletic-action style without capturing his depth of feeling. Co-starring Mira Sorvino.